The moon, Saturn and Jupiter provide a Thanksgiving skywatching feast
A waxing gibbous moon, Saturn and Jupiter make inviting targets for skywatchers this Thanksgiving.
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Solar eclipses seen by long-dead Cassini spacecraft shed new light on Saturn’s rings
Read more: Solar eclipses seen by long-dead Cassini spacecraft shed new light on Saturn’s ringsData from the long-deceased Cassini spacecraft offers astronomers an unconventional way to measure the optical depth of Saturn’s rings. …
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Will Saturn’s Rings Really ‘Disappear’ by 2025?
Read more: Will Saturn’s Rings Really ‘Disappear’ by 2025?If you can get your hands on a telescope, there are few sights more spectacular than the magnificent ringed planet – Saturn.Read more…
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Evidence of alien life may exist in the fractures of icy moons around Jupiter and Saturn
Read more: Evidence of alien life may exist in the fractures of icy moons around Jupiter and SaturnResearchers searching for evidence of extraterrestrial life are investigating the geological faults of Saturn’s largest icy moon, Titan, and Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. …
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NASA wants to fly this nuclear Dragonfly drone on Saturn’s moon Titan. Watch its wind tunnel test (video)
Read more: NASA wants to fly this nuclear Dragonfly drone on Saturn’s moon Titan. Watch its wind tunnel test (video)Testing for NASA’s Dragonfly mission is underway as engineers get the aerial rotorcraft ready for its anticipated 2027 departure to explore Saturn’s moon, Titan. …
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NASA Plans to Visit a Toxic Moon—Here’s How It’s Testing a ‘Dragonfly’ for the Mission
Read more: NASA Plans to Visit a Toxic Moon—Here’s How It’s Testing a ‘Dragonfly’ for the MissionA car-sized rotorcraft is getting ready to soar through the thick atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon. Before it’s ready to explore the possible habitability of the bizarre methane-soaked world, Dragonfly was put to the test here on Earth, flying thro…
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See the moon and Saturn take a night swim in Aquarius tonight
Read more: See the moon and Saturn take a night swim in Aquarius tonightThe moon and Saturn will take a night swim together in the watery constellation of Aquarius on Tuesday (Oct. 24) as the two bodies make a close approach and come into conjunction. …
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NASA tests 8-rotor Dragonfly drone destined for Titan
Read more: NASA tests 8-rotor Dragonfly drone destined for TitanDragonfly is set to become the first multi-rotor aircraft to fly on another celestial body when it reaches Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, in 2034.
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NASA’s Dragonfly Tunnel Visions
Read more: NASA’s Dragonfly Tunnel VisionsDragonfly Team Utilizes Unique NASA Facilities to Shape Its Innovative Titan-bound Rotorcraft With its dense atmosphere and low gravity, Saturn’s moon Titan is a great place to fly. But well before NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft lander soars through Titan’s skies, researchers on Earth – led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland…
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Webb Telescope Reveals a High-Speed Jet on Jupiter
Read more: Webb Telescope Reveals a High-Speed Jet on JupiterIn July 2022, the Webb Space Telescope detected an intense jet shooting across the equator of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. The jet is traveling at about 320 miles per hour (515 kilometers per hour) and is about 25 miles (40 km) in a…
